Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> In addition to the explanation, show us the output of:
>>
>> fdisk -l
>>
>> So we can have an idea of the current state of your hard disk
>> partitions.
>>
>>
> "
> :~# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track,
> 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector
> size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size
> (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc0000000
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 9 72261 de Dell Utility
> /dev/sda2 10 1134 9029632 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3 1134 11352 82082604 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda4 11353 77825 533944342 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 11353 21733 83385351 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 * 21734 31931 81915403+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 31932 37267 42860351+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda8 42131 52329 81923436 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 52330 62527 81915403+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda10 62528 72726 81923436 83 Linux
> /dev/sda11 72727 77825 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda12 37267 42130> 39061504 83 Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order "
What you need is another hard disk :-P
Okay, you have now 3 primary partitions and one extended that holds the rest
of the logicals which means that you only can:
1/ Add more logical partitions
2/ Completely re-do your hard disk schema (requires disk formatting)
3/ Add an additional hard disk, either external or internal
>> What recent operating system needs to be installed still in a primary
>> partition? Can you tell what OS are you going to install?
>>
>>
> I want to try PC-BSD 9 (see http://pcbsd.org/ ), which, unfortunately,
> apparently needs to be installed in a primary partition.
Mmm, which seems to be true:
http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/PC-BSD_FAQS#Is_it_possible_to_install_PC-BSD_on_an_extended_partition.3F
I didn't know about that requirement for *BSD systems. With today hard disk
capacity standards (~2 TiB) it seems to me a bit unrealistic requirement :-/
(...)
> so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the prospect
> of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer.
I already pointed out some alternatives and Keith told you about
virtualization which can be also another possibility, at least to test
the PC-BSD 9 inners :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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